MGT252-Tab Flashcards

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Marketing

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The process by which companies engage customers, build strong customer relationships, and create customer value in order to capture value from customers in return.

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Needs

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State of felt deprivation

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Wants

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The form human needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality.

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Marketing offerings

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Some combination of products, services, information, or experiences offered to a market to satisfy a need or want.

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Marketing myopia

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The mistake of paying more attention to the specific products a company offers than to the benefits and experiences produced by these products.

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Exchange

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The act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return.

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Marketing management

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The art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them.

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Production concept

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The idea that consumers will favor products that are available and highly affordable; therefore, the organization should focus on improving production and distribution efficiency.

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Product concept

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The idea that consumers will favor products that offer the most quality, performance, and features; therefore, the organization should devote its energy to making continuous product improvements.

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Selling concept

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The idea that consumers will not buy enough of the firm’s product unless the firm undertakes a large-scale selling and promotion effort.

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Marketing concept

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A philosophy in which achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do.

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Societal marketing concept

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The idea that a company’s marketing decisions should consider consumers’ wants, the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-run interests, and society’s long-run interests.

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Customer relationship management

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The overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction.

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Customer-perceived value

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The customer’s evaluation of the difference between all the benefits and all the costs of a marketing offer relative to those of competing offers.

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Customer satisfaction

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The extent to which a product’s perceived performance matches a buyer’s expectations.

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Customer-engagement marketing

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Making the brand a meaningful part of consumers’ conversations and lives by fostering direct and continuous customer involvement in shaping brand conversations, experiences, and community.

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Consumer-generated marketing

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Brand exchanges created by consumers themselves, both invited and uninvited, by which consumers are playing an increasing role in shaping their own brand experiences and those of other consumers.

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Partner relationship management

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Working closely with partners in other company departments and outside the company to jointly bring greater value to customer.

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Customer lifetime value

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The value of the entire stream of purchases a customer makes over a lifetime of patronage.

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Share of customer

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The portion of the customer’s purchasing that a company gets in its product categories.

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Customer equity

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The total combined customer lifetime values of all of the company’s customers.

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Strategic planning

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The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization’s goals and capabilities and its changing marketing opportunities.

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Mission statement

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statement of the organization’s purpose. What it wants to accomplish in the larger environment.

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Business portfolio

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The collection of businesses and products that make up the company.

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Portfolio analysis

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The process by which management evaluates the products and businesses that make up the company.

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Growth-share matrix

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A portfolio-planning method that evaluates a company’s SBUs in terms of market growth rate and relative market share.

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Product/market expansion grid

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A portfolio-planning tool for identifying company growth opportunities through market penetration, market development, product development, or diversification.

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Market penetration

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Company growth by increasing sales of current products to current market segments without changing the product.

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Market development

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Company growth by identifying and developing new market segments for current company products.

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Product development

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Company growth by offering modified or new products to current market segments.

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Diversification

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Company growth through starting up or acquiring businesses outside the company’s current products and markets.

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Value chain

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The series of internal departments that carry out value-creating activities to design, produce, market, deliver, and support a firm’s products.

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Value delivery network

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A network composed of the company, suppliers, distributors, and ultimately, customers who partner with each other to improve the performance of the entire system in delivering customer value.

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Marketing strategy

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The marketing logic by which the company hopes to create customer value and achieve profitable customer relationships.

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Market segmentation

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Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, or mixes.

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Market segment

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A group of consumers who respond in a similar way to a given set of marketing efforts.

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Market targeting (targeting)

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Evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to serve.

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Positioning

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Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers.

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Differentiation

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Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.

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Marketing mix

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The set of tactical marketing tools, product, price, place, and promotion, that the firm blends to produce the response it wants in the target market.

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SWOT analysis

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An overall evaluation of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

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Marketing implementation

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Turning marketing strategies and plans into marketing actions to accomplish strategic marketing objectives.

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Marketing control

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Setting specific marketing goals, and then measuring and evaluating the results of marketing strategies and plans and taking corrective action to ensure that the objectives are achieved.

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Marketing return on investment (marketing ROI)

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The net return from a marketing investment divided by the costs of the marketing investment.

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Marketing environment

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The actors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management’s ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers.

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Microenvironment

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The actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers. The company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics.

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Macroenvironment

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The larger societal forces that affect the microenvironment. The demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural forces.

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Marketing intermediaries

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Firms that help the company to promote, sell, and distribute its goods to final buyers.

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Public

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Any group that has an actual or potential interest in or impact on an organization’s ability to achieve its objectives.

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Demography

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The study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics.

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Baby boomers

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The 9.4 million people born during the years following World War II and lasting until 1965.

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Generation X

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The 7.2 million people born between 1966 and 1980 in the “bierth dearth” following the baby boom.

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Millennials

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The 8.6 million children of the baby boomers born between 1981 and 1997.

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Economic environment

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Economic factors that affect consumer purchasing power and spending patterns.

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Natural environment

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The physical environment and the natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities.

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Environmental sustainability

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Developing strategies and practices that create a world economy that the planet can support indefinitely.

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Technological environment

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Forces that create new technologies, creating new product and market opportunities.

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Political environment

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Laws, government agencies, and pressure groups that influence and limit various organizations and individuals in a given society.

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Cultural environment

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Institutions and other forces that affect society’s basic values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors.

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Big Data

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The huge and complex data sets generated by today’s sophisticated information generation, collection, storage, and analysis technologies

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Customer Insights

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Fresh marketing information-based understandings of customers and the marketplace that become the basis for creating customer value, engagement, and other relationships.

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Marketing Information System (MIS)

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People and procedures dedicated to assessing information needs, developing the needed information, and helping decision makers to use the information to generate and validate actionable customer and market insights

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Internal Databases

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Collections of consumer and market information obtained from data sources within the company network/

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Competitive Marketing Intelligence

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The systematic monitoring, collection, and analysis of publicly available information about consumers, competitors, and developments in the marketing environment.

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Marketing Research

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The systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization

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Exploratory Research

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Marketing research to gather preliminary information that will help define problems and suggest hypotheses

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Descriptive Research

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Marketing research to better describe marketing problems, situations, or markets, such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers

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Causal Research

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Marketing research to test hypotheses about cause-and-effect relationships.

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Primary Data

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Information collected for the specific purpose at hand.

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Observational Research

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Gathering primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations.

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Ethnographic Research

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A form of observational research that involves sending trained observers to watch and interact with consumers in their “natural environments.”

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Survey Research

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Gathering prime data by asking people questions about their knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and buying behavior

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Experimental Research

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Gathering primary data by selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences in group responses

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Focus Group Interviewing

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Personal interviewing that involves inviting small groups of people to gather for a few hours with a trained interviewer to talk about a product, service, or organization. The interviewer “focuses” the group discussion on important issues

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Online Marketing Research

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Collecting primary data through internet and mobile surveys, online focus groups, consumer tracking, experiments, and online panels and brand communities.

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Online Focus Groups

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Gathering a small group of people online with a trained moderator to chat about a product, service, or organization and gain qualitative insights about consumer attitudes and behavior

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Behavioral Targeting

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Using online consumer tracking data and analytics to target advertisements and marketing offers to specific consumers.

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Sample

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A segment of the population selected for marketing research to represent the population as a whole

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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Managing detailed information about individual customers and carefully managing customer touch points to maximize customer loyalty

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Marketing Analytics

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The analysis tools, technologies, and processes by which marketers dig out meaningful patterns in big data to gain customer insights and gauge marketing performance

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Artificial intelligence (AI)

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Technology by which machines think and learn in a way that looks and feels human but with a lot more analytical capacity

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Consumer buyer behavior

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The buying behavior of final consumers, individuals and households that buy goods and services for personal consumption

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Consumer market

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All the individuals and households that buy or acquire goods and services for personal consumption

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Culture

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The set of basic values, perceptions, wants and behaviors learned by a member of society from family and other important institutions

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Subculture

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A group of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations

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Total Market Strategy

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Integrating ethnic themes and cross-cultural perspectives within a brand’s mainstream marketing, appealing to consumer similarities across subcultural segments rather than differences.

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Social Class

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Relatively permanent and ordered divisions in a society whose members share similar values, interests, and behaviors

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Reference Group

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A group that serves as direct or indirect point of comparison or references in forming a person’s attitudes or behavior

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Opinion Leader

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A person within a reference group who, because of special skills, knowledge, personality, or other characteristics, exerts social influence on others

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Word-of-mouth Influence

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The impact of the personal words and recommendations of trusted friends, family, associates, and other consumers from buying behavior

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Influencer marketing

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Enlisting established influencers or creating new influencers to spread the word about a company’s brands.

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Online social networks

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Online social communities, blogs, online social media, brand communities, and other online forums, where people socialize or exchange information and opinions.

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Lifestyle

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Aperson’s pattern of living as expressed in his or her activities, interests, and opinions.

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Personality

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unique psychological characteristics that distinguish a person or group.

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Motive (drive)

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A need that is sufficiently pressing to direct the person to seek satisfaction of the need.

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Perception

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The process by which people select, organize, and interpret information to form a meaningful picture of the world.

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Learning

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Changes in an individual’s behavior arising from experience

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Attitude

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A person’s consistently favorable or unfavorable evaluations, feelings, and tendencies toward an object or idea.

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Cognitive Dissonance

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Buyer discomfort caused by post-purchase conflict

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New Product

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A good, service, or idea that is perceived by some potential customers as new.

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Business Buyer Behaviour

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The buyer behavior of organizations that buy goods and services for use in the production of other products and services that are sold, rented, or supplied to others.

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Business buying process

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The decision process by which business buyers determine which products and services their organizations need to purchase and then find, evaluate, and choose among alternative suppliers and brands.

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Derived demand

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Business demand that ultimately comes from (desires from) the demand for consumer goods

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Supplier Development

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Systematic development of networks of supplier-partners to ensure an appropriate and dependable supply of products and materials for use in making products or reselling them to others.

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Straight Rebuy

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A business buying situation in which the buyer routinely reorders something without modifications.

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Modified Rebuy

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A business buying situation in which the buyer wants to modify product specifications, prices, terms, or suppliers.

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New Task

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A business buying situation in which the buyer purchases a product or service for the first time

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Systems selling (solutions selling)

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Buying a packaged solution to a problem from a single seller, thus avoiding all the separate decisions involved in a complex buying situation.

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Buying Centre

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All the individuals and units that play a role in the purchase decision-making process

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E-procurement

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Purchasing through electronic connections between buyers and seller, usually online

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Market Segmentation

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Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, or behaviors and who might require separate marketing strategies or mixes

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Marketing Targeting (Targeting)

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Evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to serve.

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Differentiation

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Actually differentiating the market offering to create superior customer value.

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Geographic Segmentation

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Dividing a market into different geographical units, such as nations, regions, provinces, cities, or even neighborhoods.

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Demographic Segmentation

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Dividing the market into segments based on variables such as age, life-cycling stage, gender, income, occupation, education, religion, ethnicity, and generation.

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Age and life-cycle segmentation

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Dividing a market into different age and life-cycle groups

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Psychographic Segmentation

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Dividing a market into different segments based on lifestyle or personality characteristics

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Behavioural Segmentation

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Dividing a market into segments based on consumer knowledge, attitudes, uses a product, or responses to a product

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Occasion Segmentation

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Dividing the market into segments according to occasions when buyers get the idea to buy, actually make their purchase, or use the purchased item.

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Benefit Segmentation

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Dividing the market into segments according to the different benefits that consumers seek from the product.

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Intermarket (cross-market) Segmentation

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Forming segments of consumers who have similar needs and buying behaviors even though they are located in different countries

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Target Market

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A set of buyers who share common needs or characteristics that a company decides to serve

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Undifferentiated (mass) marketing

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A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and go after the whole market with one after

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Differentiated (segmented) marketing

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A market-coverage strategy in which a firm targets several market segments and designs separate offers for each

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Concentrated (niche) marketing

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A market-coverage strategy in which a firm goes after a large share of one or a few segment or niches

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Micromarketing

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Tailoring products and marketing programs for the needs and wants of specific individuals and local customer segments; it includes local marketing and individual marketing

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Local Marketing

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Tailoring brands and marketing to the needs and wants of local customer segments e.g. cities, neighborhoods, and even specific stores

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Individual Marketing

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Tailoring products and marketing programs to the needs and preferences of individual customers

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Product Position

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The way a product is defined by consumers on important attributes. The place it occupies in consumers’ minds relative to competing products

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Competitive advantage

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An advantage over competitors gained by offering greater customer value either by having lower prices or providing more benefits that justify higher prices

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Value Proposition

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The full positioning of a brand, the full mix of benefits on which it is positioned

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Positioning Statement

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A statement that summarizes company or brand positioning using this form: To (target segment and need) our (brand) is a (concept) that (point of differences)

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Market

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The set of all actual and potential buyers of a product or service.

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Demands

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Human wants that are backed by buying power.

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digital and social media marketing

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Using digital marketing tools such as websites, social media, mobile apps and ads, online video, email, and blogs to engage consumers anywhere, at any time, via their digital devices.

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Generation Z

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People born after 1997 who include the kid, tween, and teen markets.

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Secondary Data

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Information that already exists somewhere, having been collected for another purpose

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Belief

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A descriptive thought that a person holds about something

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Adoption Process

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The mental process through which an individual passes from first hearing about an innovation to final adoption.

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Positioning

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Arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers.

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Gender Segmentation

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Dividing a market into different segments based on gender

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Income Segmentation

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Dividing a market into different income segments